Books: Molten Treasure

In 1929 a young nobody of 24 named Henry Green wrote Living, a proletarian
novel about the lives of Birmingham factory workers. In the same year another
24-year-old unknown named Henry Vincent Vorke, nephew of a peer named
Lord Leconfield, became engaged to the Hon. Adelaide Biddulph.

Little attention was paid to Mr. Green so little, in fact, that Evelyn
Waugh (who had just made a hit with his second novel, Vile Bodies)
angrily described Living as "a neglected masterpiece." Henry Green
abetted this neglect himself. He made little attempt...